If You Can’t Rock Me is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll. The track starts off with a distorted guitar rhythm along with a very brief lead being played over it. Jagger abruptly enters in with the vocals but …

“Crazy Love” by Michael Buble is the latest album by a young man who has been quietly building a reputation as a modern-day Frank Sinatra. He draws upon a similar body of music and brings to it a freshness that it surprising in a canon which most observers would …

It’s FOPP not FLOP. The third studio released album from Soundgarden, Screaming Life/FOPP, was the album that started the buzz-mill. Though not as good as previous albums in my opinion, this third installment in the Garden’s legacy is still a winner.
The straight-forward, no nonsense approach the band takes in …

Sing For Absolution, a track by Muse is certainly the newest Muse track which I find myself currently hooked on. What I will say right now is that the song has an excellent build up throughout the song and demonstrates a nice blend and balance of a more melodic …

Long time listeners of Godsmack beware! Godsmack has released an acoustic album.
The tranquility of the album from beginning to end is not to be surpassed. From the opening track, “Running Blind”, Godsmack delivers a powerful punch delivered in a soothing form.
“Re-Align” continues this near-perfection album with a …

Puff Daddy ft. The LOX, Lil’ Kim, and Notorious B.I.G.
“It’s All About The Benjamins (Remix)”
No Way Out
Bad Boy Records
Director: Hype Williams
Just when you thought enough was enough, “It’s All About The Benjamins (Remix)” was released during a time when the world was at the height of music video overkill …

The AT&T Presents Stormy Weather CD is taken from a 1998 concert that was a benefit for the Walden Woods Project and the Thoreau Institute. The performers are all environmental activist to a degree. It’s certainly an interesting mix.
The CD leads off with Gwen Stefani singing Almost Blue. …

Puff Daddy ft. Hurricane G.
“P.E. 2000″
Forever
Bad Boy Entertainment
Director: Martin Weisz
I’m not quite sure where things exactly went wrong for Puff Daddy. Perhaps he was lacking in what he does best or perhaps people just got tired of the Shiny Suit Era that he created? All I have to say …

We Didn’t Come Here To Rock is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their album Can’t Maintain. Opening up with an incredibly frantic sound created by the guitar’s rhythm and drum pattern, the vocals join in the track soon enough and the characteristic vocal performance of …

I recently have been listening to the song Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. The song off their album Physical Graffiti, is one of the best on the album or even one of their best period. The song is known for its time length clocking in about eight minutes. The …

The band yes is a classic progressive group from the 70s. Their lead guitarist Steve Howe is a very good lead player who uses all sorts of unusual scales and shapes. As well as playing the electric guitar, Steve Howe is also known for his acoustic work as well. …

This song, Because of You by Kelly Clarkson is really sweet and painful to listen to if you are on a heartbreak spree. I wonder how did singer Kelly Clarkson managed to sing such a sweet and if you listen to this song, you could really feel the pain …

ALIVE II
Haven’t we been down this road before? KISS releases a second LIVE album and it seems more mixed than ‘live’ like the first ALIVE Album (which ironically was also mixed quite heavily in the studio)
Considering that the songs presented here are not present on ALIVE I you can’t …

Tell Me (You’re Coming Back) is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their self-titled debut record. Tell Me starts off with a nice acoustic guitar part which has a tone which honestly makes me think of Jimmy Page’s tone from Led Zeppelin. Jagger comes in with …

Volunteers is the title track of an album released by Jefferson Airplane. The song starts off with a distorted rhythm by itself but is soon joined by drums, a lead guitar, bass, and a piano as well, so as you can imagine the sound is quite full. The vocals …

Overview —“ A Secret Place, a third single released by Megadeth for their seventh record, Cryptic Writings, is a much better track than the previous single, Almost Honest, and quite an improvement. A Secret Place isn’t as interesting as a lot of the tracks off of Megadeth’s earlier records …

Marking the 19th anniversary of Alice in Chain’s “Dirt”, it is only fitting to pay it tribute and praise for what it did for many fans of the band, and many people who were introduced to them through that album. This album had many very dark tones, battling many …

Need some song to make you cheer up again? Listen this song and you will dance automatically. Especially for you who like R&B and rap song.
Like usually, Nelly always bring an interesting rap song, in this song Party People, Nelly take Fergie to colaborete with him. With Fergie, …

P. Diddy ft. Black Rob and Mark Curry
“Bad Boy For Life”
The Saga Continues…
Bad Boy Entertainment
It was made apparent from the previous “Let’s Get It” and the current “Bad Boy For Life” music videos that P. Diddy had come back strong, stronger than ever. “Bad Boy For LIfe” is the …

I was sitting in a cafeteria when I first heard this song. From the voice of the singer I can actually tell that it is from Rihanna. One thing that I really like with this song is how Rihanna belt it. From what I heard from her, I can …

Released in 1971, after a long period of trying to find their feet, Meddle, can be said to be the first real Pink Floyd album, the first one, which captures completely the Pink Floyd sound, the style on which the band will later build upon, when releasing their worldwide …

Eminem- Curtain Call (The Hits)
Is it just me or is Eminem always supposedly retiring from the hip hop scene only to come back with yet another release? Well, not that I’m complaining of course, The more music from this rap genius the better as far as I’m concerned! This …

The Chainsmokers is definitely everyone’s favorite feel-good hitmaker right now. I have been a huge fan since Roses and I would really like to eliminate their song #Selfie from their discography because that song is atrocious and a disgrace in the music industry. So did this new Halsey collaboration …

For the past couple of months David Nail has been helping me past some really difficult things in my life. This includes accepting change.
This song, Strangers On A Train, will always have such a special place in my heart because no matter where I go in life, it …

Last is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their EP Broken. The track opens up in an extremely aggressive fashion with Reznor wasting no time with a heavily distorted guitar riff, a bounding drum rhythm, and overall just a very heavy sound which his vocals on …

One of my favourite alternative rock bands since I discovered my love for rock music in high school is the band Chevelle. I discovered them in high school when I saw one of their music videos playing on MTV one day after school, and I fell even more in …

L-Burna Thug By Nature is a CD released by Bone Thugs N Harmony member Layzie Bone. He uses L Burna as his nickname on this album. But he is in fact Layzie Bone from Bone Thugs N Harmony. He is a great rapper and he shows off his solo skills …

Rihanna has always been very bold throughout her music career but this just puts the icing on the cake. This song shows women can be powerful too, she puts a huge commanding vocal on throughout the whole song. She sells the point she is trying to make with this …

Ramble On is a song by Led Zeppelin which appears on their second record, Led Zeppelin II. Ramble On begins with an acoustic guitar pattern primarily in the right channel and also an interesting percussive rhythm and bass line as well. Plant comes in with the vocals of the …

U2 is an Irish rock band that has many albums, one of my favourite albums from them is entitled “How to dismantle an atomic bomb” and one of the songs featured on this CD is called Miracle Drug.
It starts off pretty slow, with the singer following the slow …

Oh Comedy is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel which appears on their second album In the Aeroplane Over The Sea. Something that I should point out about this track is that it’s the longest song on the album at a bit over eight minutes long and I believe …

Bruno Mars, Just The Way You Are. I saw it was number 1 in the UK but I had no idea who he was or what the song was. Funnily enough though as soon as I found this online I did k ow and realised straight away why it …

First off, I want to say that Linda Davis: Shoot for the Moon CD has a great liner jacket. On quality paper, all of the lyrics are printed in a readable fashion, with a decent font and light background. Better still for her fans, when you open …

I think the song and video titled “Start A Band” with Keith Urban and Brad Paisley is a cute, upbeat song. The music and lyrics blend very nicely.
I didn’t realize they had collaborated. I think they have done a good job with the song. Their voices blend …

Well, I think that this album is good, but not as good as other BRMC albums, like their first record, “Take Them On, On Your Own”, and, of course, “Howl”, the latter, from my point of view, being their very best album.
To appreciate and assess this album (Baby 81), …

Lil’ Kim ft. Puff Daddy
“No Time”
Hardcore
Atlantic/Bad Boy
In the booming years of Puff Daddy’s record label, Bad Boy Records, he was still putting his marketing niche together and churning out hits together at the same time as he continuously found the new talent and signed them up. By 1996, they …

Overview —“ Phantom Lord, the seventh track from Metallica’s debut record Kill —˜Em All, is what I believe is one of the tracks on Kill —˜Em All which really make it clear that Metallica had significant punk influence. Along with Motorbreath, although Phantom Lord is just such a better …

Misty Blue by Mary J. Blige and Monica is an amazing song that I’ve watched live on one particular concert; not sure what it is, but it truly rocks.
Both of their voices and vocal chords combined, makes a surprisingly very nice version of Misty Blue. Misty Blue …

Effervescing Elephant is a song by Syd Barrett which appears on his second solo record, Barrett. The track starts off with just about twenty seconds of just faint background noise with not much going on. The thing I want to stress about Effervescing Elephant is that it’s a very …

Looking for a new place to practice with my band I jumped into Google (as usual). A place called the FuzzBox came up and took a look into their website. Not much there on the site but decided to go down and look anyway. It’s actually only five minuets …

Artist: Beyonce ft. Jay-Z
Video: “Upgrade U”
Album: B-Day
Label: Columbia
Director: Melina and Beyonce
“Upgrade U” is the fourth single and music video (following “Deja Vu”, “Ring the Alarm”, and “Irreplaceable”) from Beyonce’s second album titled “B-Day”. Was this music video directed by Hype Williams? Oh wait, no, it was actually co-directed by …

Irchirin no hana is a Japanese song with a dark heavy metal beat to it. I, as a American, find this song fascinating. Never before have I heard such a dark melody of love played out in this strange fashion. Written by High and MIGHTY COLORS, This strange …

“Thinking of You” is a music video by Katy Perry that, to me, signifies most of all that she has grown up as an artist. She has come a long way from her bubble gum pop roots of “I Kissed a Girl” and “Ur So Gay”. Thinking of You …

At The Drive-in was a moderately known progressive indie band for the majority of their existence. The fans of the genre knew who they were, but there were not too many people outside of this hardcore group of fans that knew too much about them maybe outside of their …

I have seen a poem entitled “Footprints in the sand”. And I was able to hear an old version of it. If I am not mistaken, this is a Christian song which speaks about a man having a dream that he was walking with Christ. Then, he faced a …

High Time is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Workingman’s Dead. The song opens up with a simple acoustic guitar pattern which Garcia sings along with in a very melodic fashion. The song seems to have a little bit of country influence on the …

Judas Priest is a heavily Sabbath influenced band that carried on the tradition of the overall attitude present within the British brand of metal.Their significance ranks right up there with the other important pioneers of Heavy Metal.When British Steel was released a brought a new found interest in the …

Soul Kitchen is a song by The Doors which appears on their self-titled debut record. The track opens up with an organ lead in the right channel of the track followed by a nice bass line in the left channel while the rest of the instruments come in right …

R. Kelly
“Thoia Thoing”
Chocolate Factory
Jive Records
“Thoia Thoing” is the third single and music video from R. Kelly’s 2003 solo album “Chocolate Factory”, it follows “Ignition (Remix)” and “Snake”. In “Ignition (Remix)”, he gave us another one of those generic Hip Hop party settings; in “Snake”, it was all about Egypt …

The band the Calling has a really known song that came out a few years ago by the name Wherever You Will Go. It is song based around afew chords and some really nice guitar volume swells. This song by the band has a really big mainstream sound to …